Dragonball Crossover---From Japanese Anime to Hollywood

Dragonball the Movie is confirmed to be released this 2009. With its star-studded cast that includes Justin Chatwin, Emmy Rossum, Joon Par, James Marsters, Eriko Tamura, Jamie Chung, Randall Duk Kim, and Chow Yun-Fat, the live-action adaptation of the smash-hit anime Dragonball Z is making fans of the series excited and skeptical.

As a fan of the anime myself, I was thrilled with the thought of making a live-film of DB, but when the box-office tragedy, Speed Racer, crossed my mind, doubts started overpowering my enthusiasm about the movie. If the movie doesn't hit the right buttons with viewers, this might just be another sample of great-movie-ideas-gone-wrong.

DB may be all the rage now that news about the film are starting to leak out, but let us not forget that the producers of this film probably has thought about the negative aftermath to this venture. A series as popular and ancient (Haha) as DB is definitely very difficult to live up to. The script has to be right, characters have to properly cast and the whole product should at least make a decent, if not original, rip off of the anime. Aside from these, pleasing the taste of the many generations of avid DB fans is another factor. Some may disagree with my claim, but I believe that not all fans are DB-o-phile. They won't love the live-action just because its DB. Moviegoers and fans alike are smarter than how they are commonly depicted. If DB the movie doesn't exceed or the even equal the genius of the anime, then losing the box-office race is going to be least of the producers' priorities. Tainting the legendary Dragonball might be another

Movie adaptations are hard to pull off because of the expectations that come along with them. I believe that the people behind DB are smart enough to not make a mess out of the anime.

I'm looking forward to watching the film because I want to know how they're going to plot out the story...and also because I want to see how they're gonna deal with Goku's hairstyle. Seriously, the success of this film might just be the beginning of anime-inspired movie productions. On the other hand, it could just be one of those movies that should have never been made.